Image series 02 / 2016: Germaine Krull

Experiments with the Camera

3 January 2016
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By: Bettina Pfleging

The work of Germaine Krull has yet rarely been explored, and only presented at a few exhibitions. Mainly from 1926-1935 in Paris the photographer has created experimental, unique recordings. Technical buildings like the Eiffel Tower, ports and industrial facilities she presented in images without spectacular rhetoric. Her photos have no orientation to open up and at the same time new, unusual perspectives. In her work on scenes of Parisian life, she experimented with multiple exposures and collagen-like cutouts.
The retrospective focuses her aesthetic innovations with about 130 original prints as well as excerpts of photo magazines from public and private collections.